[XOM-interest] Iterable Elements
Adam Batkin
adam at batkin.net
Fri Jun 1 14:26:18 EDT 2007
Michael Kay wrote:
> No, the dynamics of open source development changes that entirely. When
> users aren't paying, they can't make demands.
>
> When I started doing open source I found that incredibly liberating, and it
> enabled me to move forward at a far faster pace and produce much better
> software than I had ever done in the commercial space.
I understand that there are some very interesting issues to be worked
out here but they are - in my opinion - mostly philosophical and not
technical. I'm definitely not saying this isn't the right forum or that
you should stop discussing this, on the contrary, I find it fascinating
to hear what other people think. The day-job half of me tends toward one
side and the OSS hacker half tends the other way.
That said, I have an idea that might help solve the original [technical]
issue: Someone could maintain a set of patches to the source code to
make XOM's Elements and Nodes Iterable. This is open source after all.
If this would be useful to others on this list, I might even volunteer
my time and some hosting if necessary. Actually, I already have the code
written and tested for some projects I have worked on (well, it's
currently a light wrapper, but even with that it is still only a few
lines long).
I hope this doesn't open up a new can of worms. Note that I am *not*
suggesting a fork, just a set of patches (and possibly a parallel set of
releases). And it's so few lines that the patches should be pretty easy
to maintain from release-to-release.
Thoughts?
-Adam Batkin
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